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Barrel-shaped covered jar with flower scrolls and geometric patterns
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Barrel-shaped pot with lid with knob of porcelain built up from three concave layers one above the other, painted on the glaze in red, green, yellow, aubergine and black with floral vines and geometric motifs. Each layer has a different decoration: the lower is filled with lotus vines, the middle with geometric motifs interrupted by cartouches with a flower branch, the upper with floral vines cut out in a red ground; around the foot scrollwork is applied. The lid also has a concave wall and thus forms the fourth layer. On the wall and top the same decoration as respectively the middle and upper layer of the pot. Famille verte.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBarrel-shaped covered jar with flower scrolls and geometric patterns. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.